| Holds, as a hand | 16 |
| Features of some envelopes | 26 |
| Embraces tightly | 16 |
| Bear hugs | 9 |
| Agraffes | 8 |
| Style | 5 |
| Category | 8 |
| Genre | 5 |
| School group | 12 |
| Where one makes the grade | 25 |
| Student group | 13 |
| Type of ring | 12 |
| Word with upper or lower | 24 |
| Teacher's concern | 21 |
| Teacher's charges | 21 |
| Kidney | 6 |
| Word with act or action | 23 |
| Teacher's charge | 20 |
| Schoolroom group | 16 |
| Group of students | 17 |
| Yearbook group | 14 |
| What a truant skips | 19 |
| Track bettor's consideration | 32 |
| Teacher's group? | 20 |
| Set of students | 15 |
| Seniors, say | 12 |
| Segal's "The ___" | 31 |
| Race, ___, and gender | 21 |
| Pupil's milieu | 18 |
| Phylum subdivision | 18 |
| Kind of conscious | 17 |
| Kind of clown | 13 |
| It may be dismissed | 19 |
| Elegant quality | 15 |
| Curriculum component | 20 |
| Coach, for one | 14 |
| '03 or '04, e.g. | 24 |
| Word with science or middle | 27 |
| Word with ''upper'' or ''lower'' | 64 |
| The C in PFC | 12 |
| Teaching assignment | 19 |
| Teacher's venue | 19 |
| Teacher's group | 19 |
| Sophistication | 14 |
| Shop, for one | 13 |
| Serfs, e.g. | 11 |
| Seniors, e.g. | 13 |
| Ritzy quality | 13 |
| Plane seating division (and the key to this puzzle's theme) | 63 |
| Part of PFC | 11 |
| One may have a ring | 19 |
| One may be easily dismissed | 27 |
| Music Appreciation, for one | 27 |
| Kingdom, phylum, __ . . . | 25 |
| Kind of room or mate | 20 |
| Kind of consciousness or book | 29 |
| Kind of clown or act | 20 |
| Kind of act or action | 21 |
| Heel's lack | 15 |
| Gym, for one | 12 |
| Group of sophomores | 19 |
| Graduating group | 16 |
| First or economy | 16 |
| Exceptional merit | 17 |
| Erich Segal book | 16 |
| English 101, for one | 20 |
| Elegant trait | 13 |
| Elegance in bearing | 19 |
| Economy, e.g. | 13 |
| Dignified quality | 17 |
| Dignified nature | 16 |
| Courtliness | 11 |
| Coach in the air? | 17 |
| Business, e.g. | 14 |
| Business or coach | 17 |
| Art or Shop | 11 |
| '02 or '03, e.g. | 24 |
| '-- Clown' (George Carlin album) | 40 |
| __ clown | 8 |
| Minor league baseball level | 27 |
| Like some felonies | 18 |
| Type of felony | 14 |
| Minor-league baseball level | 27 |
| Minor league baseball category | 30 |
| Designation for driver's licenses | 37 |
| Yacht-race category | 19 |
| The major leagues are three levels above it | 43 |
| Really good, like this puzzle? | 30 |
| Of top ranking | 14 |
| Most serious, as a felony | 25 |
| Minor-league category | 21 |
| Midwest League's baseball level | 35 |
| Like the most serious felonies | 30 |
| Like the baseball played by the Savannah Sand Gnats | 51 |
| Like some voting shares | 23 |
| It's three levels below the major leagues | 45 |
| Golf tournament grouping | 24 |
| Carolina League's baseball level | 36 |
| Sort of suit | 12 |
| Group legal proceeding | 22 |